By combining custom-hire machinery models, gender-inclusive scheduling, and national climate policy integration, IRRI and CGIAR enabled Cambodian smallholders to adopt mechanized direct seeded rice, significantly boosting yields and profits while cutting input costs and emissions.
Conflict in the Sahel region is growing due to a number of interlinked causes. Competition over land and water is intensifying as populations grow, agricultural land expands, grazing routes contract, and climate variability increases. While farmer–herder relations have historically been cooperative, with mutually beneficial exchange common across many communities, longstanding institutions for managing disputes are increasingly under strain.
This blogpost explains how CGIAR Climate Action research helped shape Colombia’s new deforestation-free livestock law, strengthening traceability, recognizing zero-deforestation agreements, linking environmental standards with monitoring systems, and creating financing pathways to support sustainable livestock production and implementation nationwide in practice.
This study examines how climate change could reshape the economics of solar-powered irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa, increasing system capacity needs and upfront costs while narrowing solar’s advantage over diesel, though falling photovoltaic prices may offset much of the impact overall.
Growing fish, shrimp, shellfish and aquatic plants together could help coastal farmers produce more food from the same farming system.
Malawi faces significant economic and food security risks from overlapping El Niño impacts and Iran war fuel and fertilizer price shocks, a modeling exercise shows.
In Nairobi’s Viwandani informal settlement, 100 fruit and vegetable vendors are co-creating solutions to improve food safety, nutrition, livelihoods, and access to affordable, healthy produce.
